Enriched Spectral Methods and Applications to Problems with Weakly Singular Solutions

Usual spectral methods are very effective for problems with smooth solutions, but their accuracy will be severely limited if solution of the underlying problems exhibits singular behavior. We develop in this paper enriched spectral-Galerkin methods (ESG) to deal with a class of problems for which the form of leading singular solutions can be determined. Several strategies are developed to overcome the ill conditioning due to the addition of singular functions as basis functions, and to efficiently solve the approximate solution in the enriched space. We validate ESG by solving a variety of elliptic problems with weakly singular solutions.

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